Interactive Narratives

Dawn Weiss, 30, mother of two, was shot in an attempted robbery. Her two children, ages 9 and 6, were present during the shooting. Weiss is paralyzed as a result. More…

Women who suffer from domestic violence in Pakistan have no where else to turn but to a shelter. More…

A look at the construction of the Los Angeles Police Department's new headquarters building. More…

More than 200 guitars are made at Martin each day, many more than when the company first opened in New York City in 1833 (it moved to Nazareth in 1839). But for any guitar player or music lover, getting to see the basic stages in the creation of a Martin moves them powerfully, putting some in touch with emotions they might have thought too inaccessible to be reached. More…

Photographer Justin Mott, who has worked in Cambodia and Vietnam since 2005, spent a week in the Ba-Vi orphanage outside Hanoi in 2007, documenting lives of children alleged to be third-generational agent orange victims. More…

Saturday night, July 21, and it's been slow in South Los Angeles, scary slow. Two Los Angeles police officers stop a pair of young gang members for jaywalking, a good excuse to ask some questions. Video and audio on the streets of South L.A. with the LAPD, narrated by The Times' Rick Loomis and Hector Becerra More…

Seven families across Illinois with incomes below the federal poverty line opened their lives to the Tribune this year. They are emblematic of groups traditionally at risk for hardship, but their stories are individual, compelling and demanding of attention. More…

Jan Grarup describes his recent experience in Cameroon and Chad. More…

Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk captures the issue of global warming in a video created entirely by using still images. More…

Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia's largest slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel sit idle, their owners unable to afford the raw material. More…